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The Restoration of Rome: Barbarian Popes and Imperial Pretenders
by Peter Heather
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successor kingdoms constructed around barbarian military manpower.
But, if the Roman Empire was dead, Romans across much of the old empire still lived, holding on to their lands, their values, and their institutions. The conquering barbarians, responding to Rome's continuing psychological dominance and the practical value of many of its institutions, were ready to
reignite the imperial flame and enjoy the benefits. As Peter Heather shows in dazzling biographical portraits, each of the three greatest immediate contenders for imperial power--Theoderic, Justinian, and Charlemagne--operated with a different power base but was astonishingly successful in his own
way. Though each in turn managed to put back together enough of the old Roman West to stake a plausible claim to the Western imperial title, none of their empires long outlived their founders' deaths. Not until the reinvention of the papacy in the eleventh century would Europe's barbarians find the
means to establish a new kind of Roman Empire, one that has lasted a thousand years.
A sequel to the bestselling Fall of the Roman Empire, The Restoration of Rome offers a captivating narrative of the death of an era and the birth of the Catholic Church.
Book in very good condition.
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- Title
- The Restoration of Rome: Barbarian Popes and Imperial Pretenders
- Author
- Peter Heather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0230700152
- ISBN 13
- 9780230700154
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2013
- Pages
- 470
- Size
- 24 x 16 cm
- Keywords
- Roman Empire, barbarians, popes, Rome
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